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  • #1

    Tap, Tap, Tap...

    All right I work fork for a certain web site support for a particular network which involves so very very basic technical support as a result we get a lot of very basic questions. Of course this makes for a lot of dumb questions in large bulk but nothing could prepare me for this.

    It was a fairly standard call, some guy forgot his member name and password, nothing unusual. But when I requested him to log in I got more then I expect.

    Me: Please click on the <log in tab> and wait for the box to pop up once you do there will be a place to enter your member name there.

    C: <says nothing for a long period of time but I here a faint tapping noise in the background.>

    Me: Sir? Is everything working all right?

    C: It's not doing anything. <Hear faster tapping...>

    Now at this point I couldn't figure out what the heck he was doing. Suddenly, I felt compelled to ask...

    Me: Sir? Are you tapping your monitor?

    C: Yea, you mean this isn't like my cell phone? And here I thought my screen was broken.

    Me: Sir, use the mouse... please...

    No one could possible be that ignorant, please not let it be so, my poor brain can't take it.
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  • #2
    Quoth Draginhikari View Post
    Me: Sir? Are you tapping your monitor?

    C: Yea, you mean this isn't like my cell phone? And here I thought my screen was broken.

    Me: Sir, use the mouse... please...

    No one could possible be that ignorant, please not let it be so, my poor brain can't take it.
    I feel for you. It's going to get worse. I have heard that the upcoming Windows 7 release is designed for touch screen computers. Soon all the lusers will be thinking that every computer is a touch screen computer.
    "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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    • #3
      Quoth Draginhikari View Post
      No one could possible be that ignorant, please not let it be so, my poor brain can't take it.
      Should we really shatter his fragile perceptions?
      I AM the evil bastard!
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      • #4
        Quoth lordlundar View Post
        Should we really shatter his fragile perceptions?
        Yes, yes, he's over ten posts. I do believe it's time to break him.
        "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
        "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
        "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
        "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
        "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
        "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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        • #5
          Quoth EricKei View Post
          Yes, yes, he's over ten posts. I do believe it's time to break him.
          There is no Santa Claus. Nor Easter Bunny.


          Bun-Bun snuffed both of them.
          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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          • #6
            Quoth dalesys View Post
            There is no Santa Claus. Nor Easter Bunny.


            Bun-Bun snuffed both of them.
            Pfft. The terrasque could take that loser out.
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            • #7
              Quoth lordlundar View Post
              Should we really shatter his fragile perceptions?
              Leave me to my fragile perceptions they keep me sane.

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              • #8
                Quoth Draginhikari View Post
                Leave me to my fragile perceptions they keep me sane.
                Pfft! Sanity's overrated. Insanity is SO much more FUN!
                I AM the evil bastard!
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                • #9
                  Quoth Broomjockey View Post
                  Pfft. The terrasque could take that loser out.
                  I'll see your tarrasque and raise you one gazebo.
                  "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                  "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                  "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                  "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                  "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                  "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                  Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                  "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                  • #10
                    Quoth EricKei View Post
                    I'll see your tarrasque
                    err... no... I MEANT the terrasque. That's right... It's a larger... meaner... version. Like, the tarrasque's big brother or something... Yeah.

                    And I'll see your gazebo and raise you a head of Vecna.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                      I feel for you. It's going to get worse. I have heard that the upcoming Windows 7 release is designed for touch screen computers. Soon all the lusers will be thinking that every computer is a touch screen computer.
                      Actually I predicted that most people would be using touchscreen monitors regularly by now. Once I started seeing them appear in POS situations around 1996 or so. Guess I was wrong. Strange too, since drivers are available for the products that exist. I guess there's just enough added cost to that capability to make it unattractive when buying a flatscreen or CRT. Even so, I'm a bit surprised that they haven't snuck more into the computer world as a "almost every computer has this", like the soundcard (or more likely these days, integrated soundcard on the motherboard) has. Maybe the people who need them just go up a level and buy a SmartBoard instead.

                      On an unrelated note, I have to Windex the monitors at work often, seems a lot of folks (including me if my fingerprints are any indication) think that we have touchscreens too.
                      Last edited by MrSmiley; 09-08-2009, 10:49 AM.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth Broomjockey View Post
                        err... no... I MEANT the terrasque. That's right... It's a larger... meaner... version. Like, the tarrasque's big brother or something... Yeah.
                        You know it's gonna be a loooong night when your GM pipes up with "...And then the tarrasque's big brother shows up...". One GM I had was playing around with the notion of a demiplane full of tarrasques (he never actually implemented it). When we brought up the obvious issues with that, he invoked Rule Zero.

                        Bastard.
                        --------------

                        Yeah, price could definitely be an issue. For one of the things we sell (part of a package), the "standard LCD monitor" option costs about $150-200 LESS than the "touchscreen LCD monitor that's noticeably smaller" option.
                        "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                        "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                        "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                        "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                        "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                        "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                        Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                        "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                        • #13
                          Quoth EricKei View Post
                          You know it's gonna be a loooong night when your GM pipes up with "...And then the tarrasque's big brother shows up...". One GM I had was playing around with the notion of a demiplane full of tarrasques (he never actually implemented it). When we brought up the obvious issues with that, he invoked Rule Zero.
                          We actually found out a way to reliably kill a tarrasque. It involved summoning a Blackball from Mystara right into the inside of the tarrasque and let it have it's fun.
                          Last edited by lordlundar; 09-08-2009, 07:36 PM.
                          I AM the evil bastard!
                          A+ Certified IT Technician

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                          • #14
                            "Computer? Computer?

                            Ah, a keyboard. How quaint."
                            Any day you're looking down at the dirt instead of up at the dirt is a good day.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth lordlundar View Post
                              We actually found out a way to reliably kill a tarrasque. It involved summoning a Blackball from Mystara right into the inside of the tarrasque and let it have it's fun.
                              Reminds me of a hole I found in AD&D's implementation of psionics. Creatures didn't have psionic resistance, and Disintegrate didn't have a saving throw. Nothing like taking a 20'x20'x20' chunk out of the middle of an adult red dragon. At level 4. We weren't allowed to use psionics after that.
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